The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Jun 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

At the start, I had a recruiter call that lasted about an hour where the recruiter essentially talked the whole time about how the ad tech industry works.

It was detailed, but it felt boring and like a waste of my time.

Next I met the hiring manager for a half-hour session. He was nice, but there was no real structure or prepared questions, so it didn’t feel anchored. Then I got to the step that really soured everything: a take-home assignment where they didn’t ask me to build something from scratch. Instead, they handed me an existing project and told me to “improve” its architecture and visual design. The codebase was messy and buggy, and the instructions were unclear enough that I ended up making assumptions that weren’t what they expected.

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